Hardware vendors are now implementing Microsoft's "Project Olympus" datacenter specification, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2017
Security software providers Bitdefender, Lookout and Ziften are partnering with Microsoft to integrate the company's Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service into their respective threat protection services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2017
Organizations preparing to deploy Windows 10 can turn to Microsoft's "free" Windows Analytics tools for help, the company said this week in a Web presentation.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2017
Microsoft this week turned the spotlight on the "Fall Creators Update" edition of Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT), previously known as Windows Embedded.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 03, 2017
Microsoft shared some broad plans for its forthcoming Office 2019 productivity suite, as well as Exchange Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2019, in a Web presentation this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2017
Despite recording significant increases in their latest earnings reports, neither Microsoft nor Google managed to put a significant dent in Amazon's lead in the cloud infrastructure services market.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 01, 2017
A newly refocused Cloud Solution Provider program is giving partners hope for better relationships with Microsoft field reps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 30, 2017
Microsoft's new fiscal year got off to a much better start than expected, with the company reporting $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 26, 2017
Google is partnering with Cisco on a hybrid cloud effort that will enable workloads to run on Cisco's UCS hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled new container management services for its Azure cloud, including those aimed at the Kubernetes open source container orchestration solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2017
A strategic partnership announced Monday between Microsoft and Cray will bring the latter's supercomputing capabilities to the Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017
Microsoft has opened the door for enterprises and service providers to run Azure Stack at much greater scale.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017
Version 1709 of Windows Server 2016 became generally available on Tuesday, marking the operating system's first "semiannual channel" release for businesses that want to receive updates from Microsoft at a faster clip.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2017
When it rolled out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update earlier this week, Microsoft gave much of the limelight to its support for mixed reality headsets and various user interface improvements. However, Microsoft's latest operating system update offers a vast array of other practical features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off the new Surface Book 2, in addition to announcing the general availability of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (previously code-named "Redstone 3").
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 17, 2017